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QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 04:01 PM) I don't know, it will normalize a bit. Any speech he doesn't fall on his face will be him "turning into a real candidate", and he has a real communications team now that apparently took away his twitter. People have dumb memories. But I expect him to still get at LEAST 45% unless we keep seeing 10% libertarian numbers. He's been stuck around a 40% ceiling for a while now, and while his campaign is professionalizing a bit, they still have little funding and next to zero infrastructure going into July. He's also alternating between "presidential" scripted speeches and his usual manic rallies, and he still has at least some control over his own twitter (plenty of dumb stuff in the last couple of days). In news related to the brexit thread and how there's no way racial rhetoric is becoming more widespread: *rolls eyes so hard*

Brexit: UK cannot have 'single market a la carte', say EU leaders 'Leaders made it crystal clear that access to the single market requires acceptance of all four freedoms - including freedom of movement' Shockingly, almost every argument put forth by the "leave" side has turned out to be a lie.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 01:24 PM) Yes, racism does exist everywhere. However, over there I ran into much more "we hate you because you are from another country." One example is: I was walking to dinner with some friends in Germany. All of a sudden they pulled me to the side and told me we had to wait to go down the street. I didn't know why until I saw a group of workers going into a factory for a night shift and another group leaving the factory. They were on opposite sides of the street and all of a sudden ran at each other into a big fight. It lasted about 5 minutes and then they each went on their way. My comment was "What the f@&k was that. The reply was that the group leaving were Turks and the German workers do not get along with them because the take jobs from the Germans. That sounds nearly identical to anti-Mexican feelings in this country, which definitely carry a racial component.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 11:32 AM) Perhaps they could pull a costanza, and just show up at the next EU meeting acting like nothing happened. What us? Quit? Naw. What's next. https://www.facebook.com/GetCafe/videos/1646505489005671/

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 02:46 PM) It was worse than horrible. I didn't even know wtf was going on. They took down the aliens easier than they did in the first. Some "spoilers" but lol who cares about this mess of a plot:

538's first election forecast started today. Hillary slightly about 80% chance of winning, Missouri is considered the closest toss-up state. I'm guessing that Trump will get a small convention bump (barring anything absolutely ridiculous happening, which is gotta be a 50/50 shot), Clinton will continue to consolidate Bernie holdouts and improve her numbers to maintain a popular vote margin approaching 10 points, Trump will be declared the "winner" of the first debate no matter what to help feed a horse race narrative, and we'll get the biggest electoral blowout since Reagan in November. edit: based on the current polls, which are somewhat reliable as we approach the conventions (where they drop off again in predictive powers for a few weeks), Texas is more likely to turn Blue than Florida is to turn Red this year.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 03:30 PM) Why does the employer need to waste time/energy/money explaining something so basic? It's a place of work, not a dorm room. Perhaps this work place is not really interested in having interns if they don't want to deal with people with zero professional workplace experience? edit: at my internship, I was lightly poked fun at for wearing a suit to my interview. Summer dress code there allowed shorts to front office workers. This was nationally known automotive engineering/manufacturing company.

Trump University isn't the only scam real estate 'school' Trump's been involved with: Plagiarized Lessons and Deceptive Tactics: A Look Inside the Trump Institute Trump being exposed as a two-bit con artist slime ball is a nice side-effect of his narcissistic campaign.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 02:55 PM) I still disagree. Why should the company lose money to take college students on internships? From our view, many of the hospitals couldn't afford to take them if they had to pay them as well. That's true of a lot of entry-level positions, though. Most hires straight out of college are going to be a drain on the company for several months/the first year before they've learned enough workplace and job-specific skills to contribute meaningfully. At least in the engineering world, internships are paid and sometimes quite well. My friend got an internship at one of the big auto makers, and he was paid over $20/hr and I think they paid for his apartment in the area too. Those sorts of arrangements were pretty typical for my other classmates as well. I stayed local, but I still made close to $20, which was great for a college student. edit: not sure if it's been mentioned before, but unpaid internships also filter out poorer students who can't necessarily afford to work full time for no pay.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:44 AM) GREG!!!!! This post is for you, since i recall on at least ore than one occasion you (and me as well) have complained about our youth of today. I actually laughed after reading this. Welcome to the real world, Class of 2017! http://www.askamanager.org/2016/06/i-was-f...dress-code.html I really love this line from her letter" We were shocked. The proposal was written professionally like examples I have learned about in school, and our arguments were thought out and well-reasoned. We weren’t even given a chance to discuss it I'm glad I don't work for a bunch of uptight assholes.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 12:52 PM) Having spent a fair amount of time at athletic events in europe, I think much of it is based on nationality not race. Many of them think it's just "other" people taking jobs and being a drain financially on the country especially one with the NHS. Like I pointed out earlier, a lot of the anti-immigrant resentment in Britain is directed as Polish immigrants. I don't know if Britons have a different racial view of Polish people, though. edit: there's definitely plenty of over-the-top racism in Europe, though. e.g. black athletes getting pelted with bananas.

ID2 was horrible. They tried having way too many characters and needless subplots. Could have eliminated half of the cast and tightened up the story.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 12:19 PM) My eyes can't roll far enough. You might not be aware of this, but a guy who launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, retweeted neo-nazi 'statistics' about black people, and wants to ban an entire religion from coming to this country is actually the presidential nominee for a major political party. White nationalist groups have been vocal about feeling like his campaign allows them to be more open and public about their ideology. A neo-nazi shot and stabbed one of the "remain" British MP's to death a few days before the election while shouting "Britain First!"

I'm eagerly awaiting the RNC this year. Most big-name GOP politicians have either outright declined or haven't been invited to speak, Trump may speak every night himself, and they're planning on having a "winners night" with "athletes and coaches" Remember when we thought Romney's "the trees are just the right height" and Eastwood yelling at a chair were peak election absurdity? If we only knew...

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 12:20 PM) "There are strong reasons to doubt whether the regulations were adopted for—or that they actually serve—any legitimate purpose. " Um, allowing people to get the medication their doctors prescribed for them? Hilarious contrast to his 50-page meltdown in the Texas HB2 case where the intentions of their regulations were both laughably obviously anti-abortion and obviously didn't serve any legitimate purpose. Alito's easily the biggest hack on the court.

Trump's been soliciting a bunch of foreign government reps for donations for some reason. Clearly, the organizational genius behind this campaign should be put in charge of the executive branch of the United States government.

They're just "telling it like it is!" and not surrendering to the PC Police!

alito also had himself a good cry over the court declining to hear a challenge to Washington's law that doesn't allow pharmacists to decide they don't want to do their job

I don't think anyone's commented on it here, but there was a landmark ruling overturning Texas's HB2 anti-abortion law on Monday, and it in effect invalidates similar anti-abortion laws in 25 states.

re: 5% unemployment in Britain, that's true, but similar to good top line unemployment numbers here, a lot of the jobs that have come back aren't particularly good or well-paying jobs, and much of the economic gains of the past several years (decades?) have been heavily concentrated in the financial sector. I don't know that the Euro being flawed necessarily means that the EU as a whole is flawed.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:39 AM) And yet thousands of jobs are unfilled for lack of people to do them. There are always open jobs when unemployment approaches full employment levels, but I wonder how many of these "trade" jobs are like the ones we'd hear about back in 2010 or so. Manufacturers complaining that they couldn't find anyone to take all of these highly skilled jobs they were offering, but these jobs 1) required that you came in with your own training rather than learning on the job 2) were in middle-of-nowhere places and 3) offered low wages, like $10-12/hour for skilled work.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:39 AM) That's the point I'm making. The government should have programs to expand these schools, or create their own programs to compete with them, as this type of investment is in the best interest of the country and it's citizens. Instead, we pile on the student debt load for college degrees that are often worth less in the job market than the tuition paid to get them...because college or bust! The "debt load for garbage degrees" applies to a lot of the private for-profit "trade schools" like Wyotech, unfortunately. There's always openings at those places, but they're expensive and might end up being useless. The trade schools I'm speaking of are the ones that are run by the trade unions.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:33 AM) As they (as well as the rest of the EU) ignored and swept under the rug the racist incidents committed by its many 'visitors' from outside the EU. A lot of the racist backlash in Britain is fueled by anti-Polish sentiment.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:32 AM) Mike Rowe would disagree with you. He is always highlighting job fields in the trades that are desperate for help. http://www.mikeroweworks.com/_pdf/mrwfrecips.pdf I know multiple people who have gone into the trades, both friends and family. It can take years on the wait lists to get into places like the pipefitters or electrician schools.

Britain confronts a wave of racist incidents after the Brexit vote